Migration Studies

1+3.5 students take one of these two one-year interdisciplinary specialised MScs as their core training:

• MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
• MSc Migration Studies

and then progress to DPhil study in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography or the Department of International Development, including the DPhil in Migration Studies, or to a DPhil in a related area (Criminology, Geography, International Relations, Politics or Socio-Legal Studies). MSc Migration Studies students may also progress to +3.5 study at the Open University on the Social Justice and Inequalities pathway.

+3.5 students will have completed one of the two MScs listed above, or appropriate core training which meets the ESRC’s 2022 Training Guidelines.

For applications to the Migration Pathway, applicants must email graduate.studies@anthro.ox.ac.uk after applying  to indicate that they wish to be considered for a studentship. Please also use this contact to confirm the deadline for submissions.

The RSC and COMPAS have extensive links to a range of countries and multilateral agencies such as World Bank, UNDP, OECD, IOM and UNHCR. They also have links with research institutions both in the global South and the North that students can draw upon in their DPhil.

An Virtual Study Trip is organised for MSc RFMS and MSc MS students to meet officials in the major international organisations relevant to their research. Students on this pathway have many opportunities to undertake internships, including with the Norwegian Refugee Council, the National Organisation for Deported Migrants (Jamaica), the IOM and the East European Advice centre in London.

Students from the pathway have taken posts in most of the major international migration bodies and leading think tanks and consultancies in the UK.